[ That earns Shepard a rueful sort of laugh from Kasumi. ]
Keiji is really good at adapting to the situation, so he probably would.
[ She doesn't quite realize how telling it is that she sometimes still refers to him in the present tense. The truth, however, is that Kasumi isn't sure on that front, either--if Keiji would take it any better than Shep did. Keiji... he was ready to die. The fact that there'd been a prerecorded message for her when she accessed his graybox was only testimony to that; he knew he could be gone at any moment. That's why he urged her to leave him behind when Hock killed him. He knew it was going to happen sooner rather than later and he knew that they would be together again through their memories.
Because he knew that if he hadn't been prepared, if he hadn't had the presence of mind to make sure they would find a way to be together again, Kasumi would have begged to stay, to die with him right then and there. And if he hadn't been prepared, he wouldn't have been able to fight her on it.
But he did, and now here she is. Still unsure. ]
I don't know if I should... keep hoping he might show up here. It just doesn't seem likely, and yet...
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Keiji is really good at adapting to the situation, so he probably would.
[ She doesn't quite realize how telling it is that she sometimes still refers to him in the present tense. The truth, however, is that Kasumi isn't sure on that front, either--if Keiji would take it any better than Shep did. Keiji... he was ready to die. The fact that there'd been a prerecorded message for her when she accessed his graybox was only testimony to that; he knew he could be gone at any moment. That's why he urged her to leave him behind when Hock killed him. He knew it was going to happen sooner rather than later and he knew that they would be together again through their memories.
Because he knew that if he hadn't been prepared, if he hadn't had the presence of mind to make sure they would find a way to be together again, Kasumi would have begged to stay, to die with him right then and there. And if he hadn't been prepared, he wouldn't have been able to fight her on it.
But he did, and now here she is. Still unsure. ]
I don't know if I should... keep hoping he might show up here. It just doesn't seem likely, and yet...